• Hubi@feddit.org
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      22 days ago

      He wasn’t, the police found two casings and two unfired rounds at the scene.

        • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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          22 days ago

          Some guns, especially ones that have a tilting barrel (most pistols) can be finicky about adding a big weight at the end of the barrel. most surpressors nowadays have methods to sorta help counteract the weight, but the gun can still jam or not cycle if the ammo isn’t powerful enough.

          in this case, it looks like they didn’t test out their setup well enough, and had to manually rack the slide to eject the spent case and chamber a new round.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      He’s using subsonic ammo and a homemade suppressor. The gun can’t cycle with that. That’s why he’s racking it by hand and why he left both shell casings and unfired cartridges behind (because he over racked it).

    • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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      22 days ago

      I think your are right. Depending on the type of pistol, they don’t all cycle nice with suppressors. I’ve sern some suppressor/pistol combos where people have to manually cycle the slide, after firing, to chamber the next round most of the time.